Disertasi
Novice and experienced teachers’ identities and emotions in online written feedback / Dewi Nur Suci
Abstrak
This research is aimed at investigating how EFL novice and experienced teachers construct their identities in online writing feedback (OWF) how emotion can influence the EFL novice and experienced teachers in constructing their identities in OWF and what factors influence the EFL novice and experienced teachers rsquo emotions while they are (re) constructing their teacher rsquo identities during OWF. A narrative inquiry was used to address these three research questions. Six teachers that consisted of two teachers who taught English subjects in writing reading and linguistics at Faculty of Laws and Politics at Open University voluntarily participated in this study. They wrote their experiences in a narrative frame about teaching English online and at face-to-face (FTF) classrooms ways of giving feedback and their emotions in OWF. The written data were clarified through online interview with the participants. The transcribed result of interview was coded. The information shared by the participant were inductively analyzed to address the research problems. Besides verbal data the OWF data that represented the online written interactions during eight discussions for each teacher were collected. The types of feedback i.e. constantive directives or expressives in OWF were categorized and analyzed. Sentiment analysis of NVivo was also used to understand the teachers rsquo emotions. The results of the study revealed that 1) EFL novice and experienced teachers rsquo identities were reflected into four categories such as teacher rsquo s professional status ways of teachers rsquo feedback provision types of feedback provided by the teachers and teachers rsquo emotional regulations. Of being a teacher that is a dominantly acted role during OWF the participants performed as a facilitator manager educator learning resource motivator and social being. The result also showed that the novice teacher performed more roles than that of experienced teachers. In the part of the ways of teachers rsquo feedback provision the novice teachers did more various activities that tended to be more engaged in OWF than the experienced teachers. Similarly the novice teachers also had more various types of feedback such as criticism praise assentive praise and criticism than the experienced teachers. Then the novice teachers also produced more directive and expressive types of feedback. However both of novice and experienced teachers dominantly preferred direct feedback strategy to dialogic one. In regulating the emotions the novice teachers tended to be influenced by the student attitude rather than the experienced teachers. 2) EFL novice and experienced teachers had an emotional change ranging from negative to positive emotions such as sadness anger fear joy and love. The interview result showed that the frequency of the novice teachers to have negative emotions was higher than experienced teachers. However compared to the online interactions from types of OWF that were analyzed by sentiment analysis the novice teachers obtained more positive emotions than experienced teachers. 3) The teachers rsquo emotions were mostly caused by some factors among others institutional factor teacher self colleague and students. Therefore it is important for EFL teachers and institutions to consider the identities and emotions to develop strategies to manage and regulate their emotions in order to provide effective feedback and improve the quality of online learning.